Coming of Age in Mississippi is an autobiographical novel by Anne Moody that chronicles her life as the daughter of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi. The novel follows Annes struggles with poverty and racism and her eventual growth into a black activist at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. ... Both novels show the conflicts and problems within the black community, which can be seen as detrimental to the Civil Rights movement as the whites systematic oppression of the black community. ... In Coming of Age in Mississippi, Moody notes that the tone of the skin color of a black person ...

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" "Pride and Prejudice," the acclaimed novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. ... The first line of the novel examines the notion of a blurred true/false reality in the novel, whereas the tagline from the movie brings in the theme of a conflict between cultures. ... It is worthwhile to note that the style of the two stories was presented in different ways. ... This clearly sets it apart in content from the original novel, but the themes remain the same. ... These feminine accomplishments are heavily scrutinized in the novel. ...

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Little Women is first and foremost a girl's novel "it is written by a girl, about girls, and for girls. ... Social constraints on women during the nineteenth-century play an important role in this novel. ... Alcott stresses the virtue of acting humble and genuine throughout her novel. This virtue is just one I will focus on, in consideration of length restrictions, but it's important to note that Little Women deals with a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas. ... Whereas Alcott seeks to grapple with the hardships of everyday life, putting her characters through common situa...

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The novel contains immense paragraphs of description which deal with the feelings and situations of each character in thorough detail. ... Due to the form of the text, (i.e. it is a film) formally structured sentences and verbal language are not as imperative as they are in the novel Emma. ... Austen's Emma is in the form of a novel while Heckerling's Clueless is a cinematic production (a film). ... A novel such as Emma leaves it to the initiative of the audience to take note and remember these specific events, places and objects, leading each responder to create their own meaning ...

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Hoffman's novel, Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr for numerous reasons. ... The important thing to note during this flashback is the way Kreisler reacts to Meister Abraham. ... He even leaves room in between the themes within a movement such as fermatas, long held notes, and cadences - which creates a false illusion for the listeners that the movement is coming to an end though it has merely only reached its halfway point. ... However, this particular song cycle being hugely influenced by Hoffmann's novel, Schumann also portrays Kreisler and Murr's characters in his music...

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Being able to understand the personas of characters greatly aids the process of analyzing and comprehending the storyline of a novel. ... When reading both these novels, most readers usually do not first pay attention to the details of the clothing that the characters in these two novels wear. ... Starched clothing is known for making clothing look more formal, which is interesting to note because Santiago is the one who wears unstarched white linen clothing and José Dias, a dependant, is the one who wears starched white trousers. ... The ways these two men dress reveal a few of the ma...

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There are also a number of instances in the novel where one may observe Stoker's use of the symbolic. ... Stoker's desire to create an ambiguity between reality and fiction is exploited throughout the novel. ... The use of dates creates a context for the novel. ... (p.78), that Van Helsing's note is "not delivered" (p.243) and that two letters from Mina to Lucy remain unopened. ... In a more specific display of symbolism, Stoker invokes a Christian aspect into his novel. ...

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Gatsby is an incredibly wealthy man as can be easily understood by the description of his mansion, parties and so forth found within the novel. ... However it is in fact entirely accurate to the presentation of the American cultural identity within the novel. ... In the novel Gatsby declares a world of colour, "the lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music."" ... One excellent example of this found within the novel being Jordan Baker the sexually liberated pro-golfer/flapper. ... An additional note for interest is that t...

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Wuthering Heights is one of the most widely read classic novels of all time. ... Bronte writes about her own experiences in the novel, with some characters closely relating to her own life. ... Each character in the novel has the ability to portray an entire group of people. ... The script is based closely on the novel and was plainly written by someone intimately acquainted with it. ... Of particular note is Matthew MacFadyen's engaging and coltish Hareton - inexplicably adoring of Heathcliff, and torn between his love for the man who destroyed his father and Catherine, the young woman h...

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With these words, both the record and the novel close up shop. ... Stevenson upgrades the abundance of the novel by abandoning us to search inside ourselves to discover the answers. Over and again in the novel, characters fizzle or decline to lucid themselves. ... Right now all the riddles of the novel unwind, as we experience a second record of the same occasions that have been unfolding all through the novel. ... Yet it is critical to note that while Hyde exists as refined malice, Jekyll stays a mixture of great and underhandedness. ...

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Elinor's Silence For this paper I would like to look at Elinor Dashwood's silence in the novel Sense and Sensibility. ... Furthermore, it is important to note that Elinor never voices this observation of or hypothesis about Marianne and Willoughby to anyone, she keeps silent about it, aware that her notions are based only on words, and therefore need more to support them than a simple conversation. ... At this point everyone in the novel in convinced of Marianne and Willoughby's engagement and has talked of it, everyone but Elinor. ... Elinor, like her mother and others in t...

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A classic gothic novel emphasises fear and terror. ... Omens, portents and visions are also evident in the novel, further enhancing the Gothicism found in the novel. Frankenstein is defined as a Gothic novel through the many Gothic aspects it features. ... The setting of Frankenstein is a strong part of what makes the novel Gothic. ... It is important to note that the setting in the novel is very much concerned with nature and how it reflects the characters. ...

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He writes, "Boldlier swept, the long sequacious notes" (18) which draws our attention to an irregular grammatical formation: the use of the word "boldlier" rather than the phrase "more boldly". ... The sheer fact that these strings are strummed harder makes the quiet, shy notes that have always been there to resonate with a much more interesting ad intense sound, put together as if through witchcraft. ... But Coleridge's use of the word tremble here can also mean the trembling of strings as when a harp is strummed, the whole instrument trembles with the vibrations cased by the note. ...

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Throughout the novel, we are able to observe Catherine's failure to correctly judge people. ... It is interesting to note the original title for the novel: First Impressions. ... Whenever Austen introduces a new character into a novel the reader soon learns something about his or her manners. ... The nineteenth century generally perceived Austen's work as novels of manners', placing them in the same category as those novels that were part of the silver-fork school'. ... To secure the proper relationship between property and propriety in her novels was thus not the wish-f...

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Such is not the case in Woolf's novel, rather, change is unmotivated and unexplained in her biography. ... In her paper, Sharon Oudit further embellishes on the idea that Woolf's novel is in fact riddled with cinematic allusion thereby implicating that the author intended the novel for filmic adaptation and mocked her readers. ... It is important to note also that the film lasts a mere ninety-three minutes, which not only suggests numerous omissions from Woolf's dense text, but also that there must be some condensation and invention. ... Where the novel makes use of flashbacks, ...

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In her novel Sula, Toni Morrison immerses the reader in the rich and diverse lives to be found in the black community of Medallion. ... Cynthia Davis notes that, "All of Morrison's characters exist in a world defined by its blackness and by the surrounding white society that both violates and denies it (Davis 217)." ... The ill treatment of blacks is brought into the novel's present day with the story of Shadrack, a World War I veteran and shell shock victim. ... As the novel progresses, the line between life and death slowly blurs. ... Even the distinction between good and evil even...

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Examples of such art include the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, "Jurassic Park" film from the director Steven Spielberg, and the movie "Into the Wild" by Sean Pean. ... First in the novel "Frankenstein", Victor Frankenstein abandons his creature shortly after creating it, and the creature angry with his creator questions Victors irresponsible pursuit of scientific knowledge. ... In a bid to justify this aspect, Victor in the novel says: So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein "more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a n...

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The novel, "Deadly Unna?" ... The Aborigines in "Deadly Unna" are separate to the whites in many instances in the novel, due to the cultural differences and their position in society. For example, the novel is set in recent times on a peninsula in South Australia. ... "Deadly Unna" concludes on an optimistic note that there could be change if the white community develops a better understanding of the Aborigines. Blacky, at the end of the novel suggests that there is a need of understanding between cultures for Aborigines and whites to resolve their differences. ...

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The sexual imagery attached to the description of the snake also highlights its place as a phallic symbol within the novel, "His abdominal muscularity, his loathsome, fluid motion, somehow made me sick." Jim's revolution towards the snake further accentuates how the idea of the male is treated within the novel, opening up a space for a lesbian narrative to be formed. ... Cather also perhaps expresses how her sexuality does not make her unequal to men or heterosexual relationships in this particular line in the novel. Farwell notes how "Feminist literary theory has been eager to...

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Her novels were merely an excerpt into the authority a female could command, with or without a face 'worthy' of a man's attention. ... Despite the contrast in their approaches, it is interesting to note the overwhelming difference in the social role that Mr Rochester aims to serve in marriage. ... It is important to remember that when Charlotte set out to write Jane Eyre, she was faced with infinite contingencies that would dictate the shape of the novel and the way it ran. ... It is through this medium that the three other complete novels of Charlotte Brontë can be conn...

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In Danzy Senna's novel Caucasia main character Birdie is a young bi-racial girl who is pushed to explore the idea of race by being forced to leave her racially mixed environment in Boston and disappear into the white nation of Caucasia. The beginning of the novel starts with Birdie's recollection that says "a long time ago I disappeared. ... Here we can see that Birdie only is usually only capable of passing as a white girl and while at this time she can see how her father is being looked at, accused and scrutinized because of the colour of his skin, we as readers can take note that ...

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These novels illustrate the corruptive influences colonialism had on social dynamic between family members, quality of life and gender inequality. ... In this quote, Dangarembga makes note that Nyasha's parents are not to blame for their controlling demeanor, because the settlers also oppressed them during colonization. ... It is imperative to note that the concept of education leading to social freedom in Africa is misleading. ... These novels illustrate that on a personal level, colonialism in Af...

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In this novel, Selvadurai writes through the main character's eyes as he describes the struggles that he goes through growing with the violence between Tamil and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, while finding his true self. In the novel "Funny Boy", written by Shyam Selvadurai, Ajrie goes through an internal and external change. ... By reading the novel "Funny Boy", the writer is able to show Arjie's becoming of 'a man' and who he is, by showing us examples from the beginning of the book in the chapter "Radha Aunty" of how he is affected personally by the political instabilities in ...

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Mine My Precious The novel Heart of Darkness is a montage of many political and social themes appropriate to Joseph Conrad's era. ... Conrad himself had personal experiences in Africa and states that the novel is "experience pushed a little (and only very little) beyond the actual facts of the case for the perfectly legitimate- (Conrad 11) in his notes. ... Marlow serves as Conrad's voice in the novel and it is through his eyes that the reader sees the puzzle that is imperialism. ... (Adelman 28) Marlow is one of the few people in the novel to realize the truth of this statement, ...

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" How far does a modern reader share this reaction to Laclos' novel. ... The assertion that the epistolary work presents the ugliest parts of society; its "moeurs" and values, or lack thereof are evident throughout the text; exposing the lies and contradictions is another benefit of the letter-novel. ... Laclos makes no ambiguity to whom the book is referring, going as far as excluding all the novel's plot to two locations; Paris and the inside of the country house in which the majority of the action happens. ... Taking the novel as a social critique, the modern day r...

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